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now oh there you are

you need to see this the first of three

all-new aurora tea garden mysteries

scare really is making headlines

anything that's a little over dramatic

no matter what the twist whoever the

victim is in the book

is the next person he's targeting it's

the ending that always gets you

did you hear a noise it was a cat an

all-new aurora tea garden mysteries

a game of cat and mouse starts right now

on hallmark movies and mysteries

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such a gentleman walking me to my door

still gonna do things like that after

we're married ah for a few months at

least a few months

okay okay a year

it finally feels like everything's gonna

be okay

even if we had to move to another city

to make it happen i would follow you

anywhere jessica

good night good night

this is andrew morgan

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oh

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oh no

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oh

there were 30 people here last week i

think we're gonna have to buy more

chairs

well the real murders club is turning

into the most popular group in town

ah if only our chief of police thought

that

for heaven's sake catch me before i kill

more i cannot control myself

nice visual aid for the lipstick killer

yeah well i want everything to be

perfect for tomorrow

i'm bringing my cousin phillip for the

first time

and uh nick miller will be there too ooh

your first date

i finished all the cleaning row the hall

is [ __ ] and span for your meeting oh

great thanks valerie and you're coming

to the house this week too right i'll be

there

oh can i get on your waiting list to

clean my house too i don't have a

waiting list i'm always happy to take on

new clients

did i overhear you guys mention that

nick miller's going to be at the meeting

yeah he and roe are dating no what we're

not dating it's too soon for that

we're just getting to know each other

isn't he just the nicest guy

and so handsome oh that's right you're

working for him too

yeah and he is so neat i mean his place

is barely messy

a guy who picks up his socks i mean talk

about your dream man

doesn't strike me as someone who'd be

interested in all this though

well have a good evening bye bye

let's get this finished okay

due back in three weeks oh

mother can't say i'm surprised to see

you

i only have a minute and yet you still

have time to scold me for inviting

philip to real murders

oh rory you know that i feel responsible

for him ever since he moved back to

lawrenceville for college

and you know the real murders club is a

magnet for trouble oh you can't blame

the club

i've had one scare after another with

you why would you invite him

because i'm the president of the club i

invite everyone

watch this lillian we are talking about

the lipstick killer tonight at real

murders do you want to come

i'd rather do anything but as would

anyone would sense

it's indecent really picking over the

dead for entertainment purposes

for educational purposes

uh professor miller i just need to ask

you something

sure do you know what is it i just need

you to okay this outline i did for

chapter 30 before i run copies i'm sure

it's fine go ahead and run the copies

i'd rather you approve it what if i made

a mistake they know

you won the masterby scholarship every

professor on campus wanted you as a

teaching assistant

professor henry was so impressed that he

asked you to house it for him

clearly we have faith in you run the

coffees

thank you it's an extortion i won't pay

it i must insist you keep your voice

down mr irons

most people raise their voices when they

are being robbed edward wha

what is it what's got you so upset this

came in the mail

the system put him on a lending hold he

got a payment notice for a lost book

i did not lose it i would never lose a

book or you

you're the one who checked it in i

remember i'm sorry i don't remember

checking it in

are you suggesting i'm lying oh no

no no no uh let me go check the shelf

oh i just did it's not here

tell you what edward let me pay for the

book i don't want you to pay for it

i want you to admit that you made a

mistake

you have never respected me never

you know he has had a grudge against me

ever since i told him we wouldn't be

ordering his self-published book

either way i think we can both agree

that this is uh

your problem to solve

thanks for coming to get me oh well it's

more fun if we all go together

especially for your first meeting and

nick's he could've warned me though

he would get that i'm so disappointed in

you face when i told her i was going to

the

real murders meeting yeah i've seen that

face plenty of times and i still have

faith that one day she'll see the light

about what we do

what are you doing here i don't believe

we've met

you're the librarian yes i'm aurora tea

garden

and uh this is my cousin phillip hi

and you are dena mcmillan professor

miller's teaching assistant

wow well that's who we're here to see oh

i'm afraid he's busy

he's expecting us i think we'll take it

from here

thanks nice to meet you dina

there he is excuse me

hey you two excited for the meeting

professor miller

how about for tonight it's just nick

what no

hi for me oh hi sorry

i that's bree carson isn't it the

forensic psychology professor

yeah and head of my department our class

is amazing

it took a last semester can you

introduce me to her i've been trying to

get her as a guest speaker for real

murders yeah she's a little busy it's

her birthday and

apparently she can't wait

oh professor carson hi i am sorry to

barge in on you but i

have been dying to meet you and uh first

of all happy

birthday brie this is the friend i've

been telling you about a rarity garden

she

seems to be a fanny horse yes yes i am a

huge admirer of your criminal profiling

work i'm always happy to meet midmark

well i don't know if you've seen my

emails but i am the president of a true

crime discussion group here in town and

i have seen them

and i have to say i was intrigued but

but i made her promise

not to answer them when

don't know why i'm surprised chief of

police and the

forensic psychologist we're friends

imagine that

so of course i told her the last thing

she wants to do is get involved with

your bunch of

crime groupies

right well bree it was very nice to meet

you and

um enjoy your birthday thank you

oh oh sorry

i really don't see the harm in talking

to her group trust me you don't want

these real murders people pulling you

into their little obsessions

didn't you say that your husband was one

of them

oh ro there you are come in you need to

see this

it was like this when i got here or well

when davis got here because he was on

coffee duty tonight

yeah these keys you gave me didn't need

them back door was unlocked when i got

here

wha well we didn't use the back door

yesterday when we set up

you saw no sign of a break-in this is a

pretty good sign to me

hey the folder i i had a folder here on

the table full of crime scene photos

it's gone

not all of them you mean you don't see

it everyone says aurora tea garden

doesn't miss a thing

davis just tell us what you're talking

about right there

well this photo was in the folder you

didn't put it there nope

look what's written on it don't touch it

there could be fingerprints

i knew that for those to whom life and

death are equal just

that's creepy why do those words sound

so familiar what

segregal and poe for those to whom life

and death are equal jests

there are still some things held in

respect what's that supposed to mean

maybe it's a critique of the real

murders club i think someone's trying to

spice up our evening with a little

mystery

is it you davis what you think i did

this

we should just call the police let them

sort it out

well arthur should be here for the

meeting any minute did i just hear my

name

oh this can't be good

you know whoever destroyed my

presentation was probably

probably a real murders member well yeah

i mean who else knows that i

usually set up my materials the night

before

go talk to him hey davis you got a

minute

yeah maybe it was just a bunch of

teenagers

no arthur agreed whoever did it was

probably in the club

you think it's got davis guy because

well he does have a set of keys

and he was pretty quick with that po

quote but does it fit

with what you know about him well that's

the thing we don't know that much about

him

he's only been in the club for a couple

of months he's perfectly nice though

intelligent asks good questions he asks

a lot of questions

he seems to like to challenge row a fair

bit so

maybe this is his version of just me if

you can

or maybe it's something more personal

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i wish i could say i'm surprised by what

you're telling me but i'm not

and i'm certainly disturbed that someone

broke into the veterans hall

and i hope this means that you're not

even thinking about going back to one of

those meetings

are you kidding i gotta find out what

happens next

oh phillip

the package your mother sent you is in

my office

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oh no ain't it what happened

scare really don't you think that's a

little overdramatic

i don't write the headlines megan does

besides i was a little scared

that creepy quote life and death are

equal just

oh valerie hi hi ro hey let me help you

with that oh thank you

i'm glad you're home it makes it so much

easier when i don't have to go digging

for the key

hey sally hey i saw your article this

morning pretty crazy huh

yeah someone with a strange sense of

humor oh are those muffins

yes have one

i love baking for my clients they look

delicious

hey phillip what's going on

what

okay i have to get to work but you'll

call me if you find out anything

i will oh and uh please tell your mom

i'll be happy to clean her office once

the police are done with it

oh hey nick

doesn't she seem a bit unfazed by all of

this maybe she's just a bit odd

she makes a good muffin roll oh hi nick

bye nick

sally bro nick hi someone broke into my

mother's office last night

stole her laptop what i'm on my way

there now okay i'll follow you over

heather i am so sorry this happened look

at this

someone went out of their way to destroy

my photos especially

my photos of you yeah this wasn't just a

burglary

no it was clearly personal

and that horrible picture

that was in the folder taken from the

veterans hall the lipstick keller's

crime scene

a crime scene for a murder now do you

see phillip

being part of this murder club is just

asking for trouble and aida

oh michael what did you find the access

point for the thief was likely the back

entrance

the lock was picked cleanly right that

that's what i was going to tell you

or they could have a key yeah that that

too

you really need a deadbolt back there

you know and someone accessed the

security keypad

at 11 33 pm last night they entered the

correct code to disarm the system and

then re-armed it at 11 45.

aida how many people know that code you

put that security system in for me not

my uncle michael a decade

i did recommend you change the code

every six months i know

but i never did i'd also like you to

install the deadbolt

i'll get on that valerie also knows that

code and she has a key to the office

valerie the housekeeper i'm not going to

suspect valerie

not for as long as i've known her well

i've known her a while too but she was

acting a bit strange when she found out

that your office was broken into

when you're working on a case you have

to be open to all the possibilities

mother yes but you are not the one

working this case bro remember

i am and if val is acting strange you

need to tell me

wait is that a question mark

that wasn't left on the other photograph

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and there's something new written on the

back

the librarian was a stickler for

formality

that's not a famous quote no it's a

threat a threat to you aurora

now will you finally use that app on

your phone and let me track your

whereabouts i need to know you're safe

it's not a bad idea no it's not a bad

idea

it's a terrible idea i am not about to

have someone invade my privacy even my

mother

and i can take care of myself okay but

you need to realize this is definitely

personal real

someone is taunting you

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do you see what happened i just called

the police

someone stole my car oh no lillian

i've only been here an hour and i came

back out to get a sweater and my car was

gone

just this mess left behind and now my

sweater's gone too

oh and my travel case of cds oh

i couldn't have left the case behind

instead of this i found it in the middle

of the glass

first i thought it was my laptop that's

my mother's

lily and that's my mother's stolen

computer

detective smith davis

i need to ask you some questions because

i'm the one who discovered what happened

in the veterans hall

the person who discovers it is

statistically more likely to have

committed the crime right

yeah look i'm not here to talk

statistics with you i just need to know

where you were last night at 11 30.

listen i know you live off some kind of

trust fund and you got

way too much spare time on your hands

can't argue that

let's see 11 30. that time of night i

was probably up to no good

uh-huh stir up some trouble did you i

don't mind a reasonable amount of

trouble stay put

hello arthur someone stole lillian's car

in the library parking lot

in broad daylight and whoever took it

left my mother's missing computer behind

okay i'll i'll be right there

all right davis first you're going to

tell me where you were last night then

you're going to tell me exactly where

you were over the last hour

lillian arthur's on his way oh i have a

volunteer covering the desk i better go

in here take this

oh no you should put it back the way you

found it they'll want to take pictures

and dust for prince

oh wait no i think it was the other way

around

hey there's something inside it

oh no no wait for the police

it's another lipstick killer crime scene

photo

there's something written on the back

play with murder enough and it

gets you

it feels like someone just stepped over

my grave

that's exactly how it feels

i had a question mark in the bottom

corner but there's no mark on this one

just the photo source play with murder

enough

and it gets you ah another dig at the

real murders club

isn't that nice bro someone is really

trying to get to you

excuse me it's he's saying

someone stealing my car is her fault oh

i wouldn't say

directly her fault

oh lillian if your car being stolen

really was because of me i i can't tell

you how terrible i feel

well perhaps it will behoove you to

rethink your involvement in such

unsavory pastimes unlike the veterans

hall and your mother's office where we

came up empty my tech actually found

something today

two hairs found on the keyboard of the

computer and still working on

establishing the color but

definitely on the lighter side well my

mother's not blonde or

gray and neither is lillian neither is

davis metal oh maybe

maybe we don't spit ball ideas with

civilians right

bro can you think of any other

light-heard person who might be upset

with you lately

oh there's a patron here edward irons

he's holding a grudge against me just

yesterday he basically

accused me of besmirching his character

really aurora teagarden a.b smircher

a misunderstanding about a lost book but

he took it personally

just like he did when we wouldn't stock

a book he'd written

he's older gray hair and

and he was here today in the parking lot

right after lillian's car was stolen

well that's one more person i need to

talk to this is getting more and more

serious

grand theft auto a major felony in a

library parking lot in the middle

of the day i understand you found my

computer

and another threatening message

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i know how you're feeling no you think

you know but you don't

i mean you've been in danger before but

only

when you put yourself in the wrong

person's path i have never

i've never seen you purposely circled

and taunted like this

i know i know this is definitely

different i'm gonna call michael vance

and i want him to put a state-of-the-art

security system in your home

and don't even think about arguing i'm

not arguing

honey

can i help you

you're a roar's mother aren't you

and you are whom davis medal i'm in the

real murders club with your daughter

really she's never mentioned you

i'm new well what are you doing here

because this is a crime scene

i know i heard the thief struck again i

thought it's even left another quote

behind

i need to find out what it is maybe i

can help aurora figure out the clue

she seems a little confused so far

what is that supposed to mean well she

has the police chasing after me

so obviously she's off track is she

because you seem to be

behaving in a very threatening manner oh

no i'm offering to help

i mean that's what real murders is about

finding the bad guy

i don't like your tongue there's nothing

to worry about mrs tigard

if i were the one orchestrating whatever

this is

no one would ever know it was me

hi there i'm detective arthur smith

lawrence and pd i need to speak with one

of your tenants edward irons could you

call him down here

that's him right there thank you uh mr

ironside i know who you are

good i have some questions i presume

it's about the car

theft at the library this morning yes i

know that you were there today

i go to the library every monday and

wednesday but i didn't see any

suspicious people doing suspicious

things today

so you you didn't park your car in the

library parking lot

no i've always thought parking downtown

is an invitation

to car thieves and lo and behold uh-huh

where were you last night at 11 30.

that sir is none of your concern well i

could bring you in for official

questioning

well when you find reasonable cause do

let me know

i'll alert my attorney

i know i know but it's a time-honored

ritual all the restaurants

have singing you happy birthday annoying

your fellow diners next time just come

to my birthday

professor miller i didn't finish

inputting grades but i can come back and

do it right after my lab

is that okay it's fine no rush

word to the wise be careful with her

she's got a crush on you

dina i think she's just in need of some

confidence building

it is amazing how you can teach

psychology so brilliantly

it's still known nothing without the

female mind

thanks for watching miss highgarden good

now i can apologize for not taking you

up on your offer to come talk to your

group

it's fine i don't want to cause friction

between you and lynn i appreciate that

uh maybe you and i could get a coffee

sometime oh i'd like that

the thief already struck again i stole

lillian's car

her car and left this message

play with murder enough and it gets you

one of two ways one of two ways why did

you add those words at the end

that must be a famous quote too my dad

used to say it all the time

can i use your computer

it is a quote by daschle hammett as in

sam spade

no de hammond's first detective

continental up

so we have a po quote a hammock quote i

wonder if the message from my mother's

office was a quote too

the librarian was a stickler

for formality

it is it's from a book called murder in

a library by charles dutton i've never

heard of him

murderer library published 1931 the

first in a series the professor

harley manor's mysteries our thief is

leaving us clues from old detective

novels

hmm the first clue the po

quote for those to whom life and death

are equal jests

it's from the murders in the room work

known as the first detective story ever

written

guess what it's about gonna be about the

murders and the roomwork

the double murder of a mother and

daughter and who is the next person

robbed

my mother the next clue is

the librarian was a stickler for

formality it's about the murder of a

librarian

now i thought it meant me but obviously

it was pointing at lillian because she

was the next person robbed and she's a

stickler all right she was more than

just rob

grand theft auto is a major felony yes

and the thief is leaving behind clues

about who's next

whoever the victim is in the book is the

next person he's targeting we think he's

challenging row to figure out the clues

why would he do that i don't know he's

writing clues on crime scene photos in

which the culprit begs to be caught

well could it be a cry for help i'm more

worried that he could be saying

if he's not caught he'll keep escalating

these crimes until until he kills

someone

well what about the the last clue the

one in the library parking lot

play with murder enough and it gets you

it's from red harvest by daschle hammett

who's the victim in that one a newspaper

reporter

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oh that means i think you may be the

next target

i'm glad you decided to do this stakeout

at sally's house with me

yeah well i'd rather be home with the

kids this perp is really getting under

my skin

i mean scene setting clue dropping who

does that

i don't think miller might be right

somebody could be up to something a lot

more destructive

yeah somebody smart enough to avoid

witnesses and security cameras

we have no prints no physical evidence

other than a few hairs

and the turn around on dna has been slow

lately yeah well the lab can get us a

provisional match if

our suspects are willing to give us a

sample yeah well edward irons is not

about to offer up anything

but you know my money is still on davis

medal the the real murders guy

aida called and said that she saw davis

hanging around the library parking lot

after lillian's car was stolen

so when he went back to his crime scene

it's pretty thin yeah she seemed to

think that he was making

threatening references towards aurora

and and something he said when i was

questioning him

it's been bugging me you know the way he

said it like

like he was quoting something you know

i'm gonna call aurora and see if she can

recognize me no you won't

rory tea garden is not a consultant on

this case lynn rose seems to be the

center of all of this

if there was ever a time we needed a

librarian as a consultant on a case this

is it hey

get on your phone and google it ah

fine i'll never find it

oh i found it

what davis metal said i don't mind a

reasonable amount of trouble that

the maltese falcon that's another dash

will hammer

i just wish that i figured out the

meaning of the clues earlier

well your degree is in true crime

literature not fiction yes but i did

take one class in the golden age of

detective fiction so i have no excuse

not recognizing a dash of hammock quote

thank goodness you did i just want to

know what this guy wants

yeah what does he want to test roe

himself show off to get even for

something

can it be like all of the above maybe i

should talk to brie carson about it

edward irons checks out a lot of

detective fiction

maybe he reads a lot of hammett but

you said when arthur called earlier that

they were focusing on davis medal yes

and

and they can't find him what

does he know that i'm staying here sally

the reason i didn't tell you is because

i knew you would worry

plus i will protect you that doesn't

make me feel any better

all right would it make you feel better

if i slept on the couch yes would you

please

i can also stay over no no no you have

to get back to the university i'm sure

you have studying to do

now you're starting to sound like your

mother

who you are a little but thank you fella

detective smith oh hey uh thanks for

calling

i i wanted to speak with you about one

of your tenants edward irons

yeah did did you happen to see him last

night or chat with him before he went

out

okay yes thank you very much

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perfect now both of our suspects are

unaccounted for

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valley

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heck

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so today from the side of the house i

went out there i thought i saw a shanick

over the fence

oh please tell me it was the shadow in

the shape of my neighbor's cat

if he's a really big cat did you hear a

noise

it it was a cat jumping over the fence

right

right a cat okay

okay okay i'm going back to bed

i'll stay up you go back to bed i'm

really glad you're here

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morning ro morning so i'm off to work

i will touch base with you later mm-hmm

uh is nick still here

no he had to leave something about an

early class bye aida

bye

good morning good morning i hope you

remember my telling you that michael is

going to come here this morning

yeah hi michael i'm glad you're here

feel free to get started

thanks i will so your mom says camera's

inside and out

camera's outside will be good don't you

think a camera to inside

would be comforting comforting is not

the word i would use

sally told me that you heard an intruder

in the middle of the night

no it was a cat mother a cat

and why did you have sally sleep on the

couch you have that lovely guest room

oh sally didn't sleep here nick did

nick spent the night here oh

gallery uh yeah nick was our night

watchman last night

what are you doing here oh i uh i left

my vacuum cleaner here yesterday

sorry for just letting myself in for the

habit you're not usually home when i get

here to clean

no it's a lovely surprise i haven't seen

you for a while

how's your uh mom doing oh much better

since the surgery

oh that's wonderful news i know she was

very worried

if you want to come outside with me we

could talk about where to put those

cameras

sure i was thinking

what in this corner and one over the

garage

what's sally's car still doing here

no sally

sally can you hear me sally say

something

oh oh thank goodness you're alive i need

to call 911 i need a phone

use mine i'm cpr certified i'll stay

with her you make the call

hey sally sally can you open your eyes

sally aurora tea garden is in the middle

of things

ro she's got marks on her neck like

someone tried to choke her

9-1-1 what's your emergency thanks for

staying behind to answer some questions

i am so worried about sally it's so good

you found her when you did

i'm sure they're gonna do everything

they can oh she's gonna be okay honey

that's lillian's cd case isn't it it is

and we found her car down the street i

was looking up this phrase in google

books

but i didn't find anything he's not

using proper quotes anymore

not if my name's in it it may be a

partial quote but

too common to find in a search so he's

making it harder to crack the clue

i need to go to the hospitals sally

mother will you please call nick and ask

him to meet me there of course

please find whoever is doing this we

will

and you didn't see anyone in the yard or

anyone driving away when you pulled up

no i just left the car running and i ran

to the door

i was late for a job i didn't even look

at the driveway

i feel so stupid but you were out there

when sally was attacked

i mean she left the house only moments

before you arrived you must have seen

something unless

are you accusing me of doing this i'm

not accusing you of anything other than

opportunity

to commit this crime or to help us find

out who did

you know aurora says that you have the

alarm code and a key to aida's office

where were you the night that it was

broken into

i'm not answering any further questions

until i have a lawyer

so what have we got well

valerie wagner was very defensive when i

questioned her just now

davis medal never returned to his place

last night he's still unaccounted for

oh and and i talked to the security desk

at edward irons building apparently he

only just now returned after a long

walk all right find out if any of rose

neighbors have security cameras in their

front yards

in this case just escalated to attempted

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murder

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so

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how is she ah

the doctor said that they don't see any

brain damage on the ct scan

but she still isn't awake

i called her parents and they're on

their way

how am i gonna explain to them what

happened i'll help you

yep this is all my fault everyone around

me is in danger

i don't see how you're to blame for any

of this ask my mother

earth lin lillian they will tell you

trouble follows me

follows me right to my front yard and

tries to strangle my best

friend

she's waking up

i'll go get the doctor oh i am so happy

that you're awake how do you feel

hey the road hurts come here

someone attacked you someone tried to

choke you in my driveway

what you don't remember

no no i remember

i remember standing by my car i couldn't

find my keys

and then i thought i heard something

behind me

and then that's it nothing

you don't remember turning around

don't remember struggling with anyone

oxygen deprivation can impact short-term

memory

wait did he steal anything from me

we couldn't find your phone but but we

don't have to talk about that right now

we should get the doctor in here but did

he leave a clue

i gave it to the police what did it say

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aurora tea garden is in the middle of

things it

mentioned you specifically by name it

was probably a partial quote from a

detective novel

it didn't come up in a search it's too

common we can get the real murders

members reading as many detective novels

as we can get our hands on see if we can

find it

no i don't want anyone else around me

becoming a target getting hurt almost

getting killed

getting as many eyes as possible looking

for the clue is the best way to protect

the next target

we couldn't protect sally you have to

try rome

look i want to help bring me some

detective novels

i know you have hundreds sally you need

to save your energy and get better

maybe if i have something to focus on i

won't freak out

i need to know who did this to me ro

so do i

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i'm happy to ask rita do a criminal

profile but she might not have time

she has twice my class load and by

popular demand

do i detect a hint of professional

jealousy most people are fascinated with

criminals and true crime

what do you think that is people want to

understand crime make it predictable

it gives them the illusion of control in

your papers i'll be looking for you to

elucidate

the why of the crime you've been

assigned not the how

and cite your sources any papers without

proper citations

will be thrown straight in the trash

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have a great day and be safe

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this is a surprise we have a favor to

ask

detective smith you're back yes i need

to speak with edward irons

he hasn't left again nancy don't think

so he's in apartment 434

fourth floor thank you

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whoa

davis

someone tried to choke her as in

strangle her

in your front yard at 8 30 this morning

they think some kind of ligature

well that's unusual and uncommonly

brazen

you see why i'm so desperate to find

this person and stop him

i'm happy to do profile but only if i

can show lin i won't do it behind her

back or break any rules not even for

professor charming here

i want linda have all the information

she can get

all right let's have it how do you two

know each other it's no big deal

i kept seeing him at the same late night

diner i go to when i can't sleep

we got to talking yeah about what you

don't have to tell him they don't need

to know why keep it a secret

he's helping me work on a presentation i

want to give at the real murders club

really well why don't you give me a

little preview tell me what it's all

about

it's called how detectives chase the

wrong guy and let real criminals get

away

what do you think of the title too much

that's good it's really good i'm taking

you both in for official questioning

uh not without my lawyer you're not well

then call him

now

the first three are sentences lifted

from old detective novels

it must be his modus apparanty you mean

his signature

what's the difference modus operandi is

the manner in which the offender commits

a crime

say the method of killing knife gun

his signature is something the offender

does to fill himself emotionally

it's a compulsion like an addiction

so this person's addicted to detective

stories or

leaving obscure clues what i will take a

look and we'll let you know what i find

thank you that means a lot i'll walk you

back bree

okay and um thank you for all your help

of course

i'll call you later

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i really appreciate you giving us your

time on this

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hero i see no one's found that detective

novel quote yet

you look online either well i'm

searching for something different

free carson told us about crime

signatures so

looking in the news for instances where

clues from detective novels were left

behind

come up with anything no and i guess

i'll get reading

what's the quote i'm looking for oh well

you won't find the exact quote but the

clue is

aurora tea garden is in the middle of

things

she certainly is and she's turned our

nice quiet library into a circus

poor lillian oh she is not very happy

with me at the moment

detective smith doesn't look too happy

either

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davis medal and edward irons know each

other yeah they seem to be working

together

on what well they say it's a real

murders presentation but i think they're

working together on this game that's

being played against you

unfortunately they're giving each other

an alibi for the time when sally was

attacked

hey sally how are you feeling better

listen i think i found it

the quote all right it's in one of the

books she brought me last night

sally thinks she found the quote what

book

uh gaudy night by dorothy saras is on

page 46

it says what hampered her was being in

the middle of things

too close to things that's got to be it

right

yeah it has to be do you remember the

plot

it's about the murder of a college

student do you think that means philip

is the next target

what what did you just say

hey where's the chief she's not

answering your phone well i'm glad it's

me

let him come after me i'll be ready but

if there are two of them working

together

davis and this edward irons it's so

strange to me that they've joined forces

how else could anyone beat you in a cat

and mouse mystery game row has a point

this is no longer a game sally was

nearly killed would both of them really

be that angry

that i'm balanced well maybe only one of

them is and that

one is the mastermind using the other to

help him cover his tracks

so which one's the mastermind we have

gaudy night in our collection

i'll print out the borrowing record oh

there you are

philip i need you to come home with me

right now what why

sally told me that you might be the next

victim of whoever attacked her so i

i want you to stay with me until that

culprit is caught and i eat it there's

no way i'm doing that you know what i

think that philip will actually be

safest at the university thank you i'll

make sure the campus security keeps a

close eye on him

oh i don't i don't think that's such a

great idea oh would you rather stay with

my mother

call chemist security yep satisfied okay

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did you see who attacked you what

who are you oh well he must have seen

something a

uh hair uh face or

edward what are you doing here edward

edward

i told you he wouldn't talk to you davis

let's go

no this ends now well what are you doing

davis i know exactly what you've been up

to you do

i appreciate that you're trying to solve

these crimes but

it is not impressing me that you're

trying to show me up to do it and

quite frankly you're getting in the way

uh i tried to tell him that

yeah and you stop acting like i don't

respect you

i do but i'd respect you a lot more if

you just

be a nicer person

now go go sally needs her rest

i hope you feel better

whoa are you feeling okay what if

they're not innocent

i am trusting my instincts that's what

i'm doing

now how are you feeling

i could use more jello

so other than the obvious highly

intelligent

probably trained in research i think it

likely the clues were written

by a woman the thief returns the item

stolen with each new clue that suggests

a kind of empathy

and women are the more empathetic gender

and i suspect

that this person doesn't think of

herself as a criminal

she could see herself as borrowing the

items in order to make a point

the point being what it seems to me

that the writer views miss teagarden as

a rival

well we first thought it was a real

murders club rival like davis medal

but he's a man and and i just know in my

gut it's not him

the increasingly personal nature of the

clues putting your name in the last one

suggests to me a romantic rival

a romantic rival for who

i'm not dating anyone this is no time to

be coy you've been spending a lot of

time with nick lately

let's just say it is you is there anyone

who's been a little too obsessed with

you lately

dad not that i know of

what about your teaching assistant deana

mcmillan

okay look i know what you said the other

day but i haven't seen any sign that she

has some sort of

fixation didn't she win them survey

that's a math award yes but her

undergrad degree is in math and

psychology

well the returning of the stolen items

could

be interpreted as a compulsion to

balance a mathematical equation

okay the clue that was left when sally

was attacked was a quote from gaudy

night

look at the name of the last person who

checked out the book

dana mcmillan can i find this girl

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i feared you be here dina

could you come in here please

chief would like to ask you a few

questions

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okay clearly she doesn't like me and she

did check out gaudy night maybe brie is

right

she usually is but maybe deena just

likes detective stories

and she has nothing connecting her to

your mother or to sally true

but part of getting to me is figuring

out who's close to me

we know she's smart i just find it hard

to believe all of this had anything to

do with her

well if not dina then who could it be

someone else you work with or see every

day

what about brie well we did go grab

drinks a few times when i first started

here but now she barely lets me take her

for lunch for her birthday

why she was promoted to department head

and there's a

policy against fraternizing with

underlings at the school and brisa a

rule follower i know i know wait i know

someone who might have a crush on you

valerie wagner valerie why would you

think that

she was going on and on about you the

other night and

and she was at my house the same time

sally was attacked

and she cleans my mother's office so she

has the key and knows the security code

motive and opportunity we should tell

lynn wait

valerie's a family friend her mother and

my mother worked together for years i

don't want to cast

suspicion until i've had a chance to

talk to her myself

okay i'll call her ask her to come by my

office then

okay it's just been

awful being targeted the people around

me being threatened

sally could have died

maybe i should listen to my mother

lillian gave up real murders

let someone else take over listening to

what other people think you should do is

never a good idea

yeah but with everything that's just

happened it's when things go wrong that

you especially need to stay in touch

with who you really are and what you

want

how do you do that stay so grounded when

everything's going sideways

i don't know there she

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that is weird is she running away from

us

or me could it be valerie that's doing

all this i remembered valerie was

talking about nick about how much she

liked him

and i thought that we should talk to her

but when she walked up and saw me

sitting waiting for her

with nick she basically she just ran so

hang on you had information on a

possible suspect in an attempted murder

and instead of telling us you went to

talk to her yourself

well i mean wouldn't you put it like

that i mean well

yeah it sounds bad it is bad ro now

she's alerted

if she's guilty she could be covering up

evidence right now or on her way out of

town in row's defense that did sound

like a far-fetched idea at first

they have every right to be upset with

me oh well thank you for your permission

it's philip uh he wants us to go to the

university said he got a suspicious

package

package was in my mail box as soon as i

opened it and saw what was inside i got

in touch with you guys

well you did the right thing he

certainly did i didn't touch any of the

contents

that's sally's phone

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aurora tea garden is rather on the thin

spinsterish side

i'll look the quote up you know we have

real murders members reading old

detective novels

maybe one of them remembers coming

across a similar phrase

you i bet some of them are still at the

library this isn't a job for the real

murders club this is our job

yes let the police handle it but i know

that we can help with this part

i know we can let us help the quote's

not showing up in google books

it might save a lot of time

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fine if arthur is there thank you let's

go

i'm going with him and please don't try

and stop me ain't nothing

oh and please don't expect me to be

happy about it did you actually just

encourage me to go to a real murders

meeting

you work on who's next i'll look into

valerie wagner yeah and i'll keep

investigating dena mcmillan

hello hi brie it's lin i have a few more

questions on the criminal profile i'm

already at the university do you have a

few minutes for me to pop by

sure

so we are to be invaded again we have

another

clue to figure out i hope it won't take

long which may lead us to

find whoever stole your car which we

should be returning to you tonight

well if you must what's the clue aurora

tea garden is rather on the thin

and spinsterous side terry who's still

here from the club we need to ask them

if that quote sounds familiar

well sounds familiar to me i'd wager

it's from the widening stain

by morris bishop lillian i didn't think

you read detective novels

it's not about a detective it's about a

brilliant librarian who happens to solve

a murder

as i recall she's described as thin and

spinsterish

do you recall who the victim is in that

book a college professor

pushed off a balcony in the library

that must make you the next target

are you okay what happened

someone pushed me from up there

i'm sure my ankle isn't broken it's

probably just a sprain

there could be hairline fractures they

need to check free

you okay i'm fine

i am so sorry this happened to you did

you catch a glimpse of whoever pushed

you

no she didn't well the last clue

pointed to a college professor we

thought it was you but it was me

but why if someone's trying to get to

row by targeting people close to hurt

well maybe they're taunting her by

targeting people close to you nick

it could be but if someone wanted to

kill me this wasn't the best way to do

it

and they could have easily killed sally

but didn't

this tells me it's building towards

killing

aurora tea garden

you know if valerie or someone wants to

come after me then fine

come after me go i target all the people

that i know and love along the way

bree found this in her purse while she

was digging for her insurance card

another clue the 11th problem

that's it it's not a quote there's a

book called the 13th problem by agatha

christie

it's the first miss marple mysteries a

group of miss marple's friends meet to

discuss murder cases

it's called the tuesday night club that

book was the inspiration for the real

murders club

oh so we have agatha christie to blame

what's the eleventh problem

it's called the herb of death a woman is

murdered out of jealousy

oh valerie just texted me let me see

that

i need to talk to you as soon as

possible meet me at my place

oh we can get there in 10 minutes

or i could just go back to work and you

and arthur could go talk to her hmm

exactly

valerie wagner lawrenceton pd we need to

talk

this is the police open the door

i see her she's on the floor she's not

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moving

the clues are all from books published

in the same 20-year period the golden

age of detective

fiction you said you took a class in

that i've been searching for crimes

where quotes from

detective novels might have been left

behind but if the clues

are tailored to the victim then you

could expand your search for crimes

connected with quotes from sci-fi

horror or even romance novels

novels yes there is a whole page of

results

they seem to be about the same crime

three years ago a woman coma was found

murdered

she moved there to escape an unknown

harasser

who'd left quotes from romance novels

unknown

the killer was never caught

arthur hi valerie's in the hospital what

yeah we found her unconscious at her

house

they found valerie unconscious

so who poisoned valerie basically

valerie poison valerie

she tried to commit suicide probably not

on purpose according to the doctor she

initially had heart failure secondary to

the ingestion of an acute toxin is she

gonna be okay

she's unconscious but she has a chance

she's lucky that we found her when we

did or she'd be dead

it's fox club poisoning what from the

last clue the one bree found

the egg it's a christy story yeah the

killer poisons a dish with foxglove

mixed with sage eats just enough to make

himself mildly sick so no one suspects

him of poisoning his victim a woman

he killed out of jealousy we did find a

batch of muffins on the counter one was

partially eaten

yeah she must not have realized how

potent they were and

there was a note bro what did it say

it's addressed to you it says you're one

of her favorite clients and she hopes

you enjoy the muffins

so valerie accidentally poisoned herself

in a plot to kill you

ro but it backfired on her so brie was

right that was her intention all along

something doesn't feel right look her

kitchen there's batter in the bowl

a recipe for corn and sage muffins on

the counter various

detective novels everywhere uh the

hammett the bishop plus we know she was

on the scene the day sally was attacked

she also had the security codes to aid

his office and a set of keys

valerie look i'm sorry about your friend

real

but it all fits

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i i don't believe it valerie that lovely

girl

yeah len and arthur are convinced that

she's the one that's been doing all this

and she was planning to poison you well

if it was her clearly she wasn't in her

right mind

i just hope that she recovers oh but i'm

just so glad you're okay

oh and this nightmare is over yeah

hope so you hope so no i i'm sure

that it is i love you mother

i love you too i'll talk to you later

okay

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hey ro sally hey shouldn't you be at

home resting

oh i was bored i thought i'd come down

see if he wanted to grab lunch with me

oh oh i'd love to i

i'm just not ready to buy into valerie

being a killer

wait did it bother you that the last

clue wasn't like the other ones that it

was just

something so easy to figure out maybe

valerie was just getting tired of the

game

i want to head to corinth i want to talk

to this guy andrew morgan

i just can't shake the feeling that what

happened to his fiance

is connected somehow

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oh that's nick do you mind if i take it

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hi nick hey i hope you're having a good

day uh unfortunately not so far

car issued problem is i'm supposed to

pick bria from our house and get her

back here by three for a department

meeting

oh um you know what i can pick her up

i i have to run an errand anyway so i'll

just do it as soon as i drop brie off at

the university

sometimes roe you're too good to be true

thank you

you know maybe brie can give me some

insight on whether the case in tacoma

could help us

before i head to corinth you know i can

go to court

no you just got out of the hospital you

know what they say about getting back on

the horse ro

besides i can tell andrew i'm doing a

follow-up story on what happened

corn is only 30 minutes away i'll be

back soon please ro i

i need to do this okay

just call me as soon as you talk to him

deal

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so your fiance was harassed in portland

for months and she never knew who it was

and we figured there was some guy in one

of jessica's classes she was in school

back then

she'd break into her apartment smash up

some of her stuff or steal some stupid

thing

and then leave these creepy notes oh

quotes from romance novels the article

at the time

said yeah she loved romance novels she

called them her uh

her guilty pleasure we uh

we thought we got away from the guy when

we moved but right after we got engaged

he found her again

and this time he didn't just smash

pictures

this time he killed her strangled her

with a belt from her closet

i guess he thought if he couldn't have

her no one could

and the police never found out who it

was they interviewed everyone who knew

her but never came up with a good

suspect

andrew did you or the police ever think

that

maybe this person wasn't romantically

interested in her that it could be

someone who is interested in you

me what do you mean well did you ever

have a

a rival for your affections or a woman

maybe that flirted with you at your work

uh no it's mostly guys here at the

station right

what about after jessica did you date

anyone did anyone express an interest in

dating you

i was too broken up i didn't see anybody

for over a year

oh um one last question do you happen to

know

her never saw her before

look i'm sorry but i have to be getting

back to work

thank you very much for talking with me

aurora thank you so much for coming to

get me

oh i'm glad to do it please come in

i just need to grab my computer and some

materials for the meeting

okay we have a few minutes before we're

due at the university and

if you don't mind i'd like to ask you a

few questions about something that's

bothering me oh

it's the least i can do given how you're

helping me out

have a seat uh i'll be right back okay

the mayor is asking for a final report

why isn't it on my desk

because there are problems the prince

found on valerie's phone the one she

used to text bro

do not tell me those aren't her prints

yeah they are but the prints were

sideways

not the way that you would type a text

well like someone pressed her hand into

it yeah

and the lab just confirmed that the hair

found on aida's computer is not a dna

match for valerie

plus the the note that was addressed to

row with the poison muffins

we just confirmed that that is not

valerie's handwriting hmm

so someone staged that scene in

valerie's kitchen

yeah it appears that way

someone tried to murder i think agatha

christie said it best

all detective work begins with wiping

out all starts and beginning again

well before we do anything we need to

let everyone know this isn't over

we need to get more help for bree

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sally sally i just remembered there was

a woman i saw a few times after jessica

died

she was a girlfriend of jessica's you

dated jessica's friend

i wouldn't call it dating more like

consoling each other she was

easy to talk to smart she got tired of

my depression though and

stopped hanging around what was her name

uh

serena no selena

started with an ass anyway i have a

picture of jessica with her in my phone

i'll

show it to you so this unsolved case in

tacoma

the victim was stalked using the same

types of clues quotes from books

yes but romance novels sally's talking

to the victim's fiancee

thinking maybe he might remember a woman

who

one sec oh speak of the devil

excuse me hey sally what'd you find

hey ro i'm texting you a picture andrew

gave me of a woman he said he went out

with after jessica died it's a friend of

hers

name starts with an s

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okay well thanks sally for the

information sorry it was a dead end

i'm with brie right now at her house and

we're visiting so i'll call you later

find out anything promising

not really she must have found out

something

just that he once went out with someone

with the name that started with an s but

really it was just a dead end

you were looking at a photograph that

she sent you on your phone may i see it

oh it was uh it was just a snap of the

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fiance

show me the photo aurora

come on i'm waiting

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my friends used to call me sabrina

control power the ability to right

wrongs

what wrong have i done you dina come on

in the door is open

i'm almost ready no rush uh

sorry i didn't get here senior i had to

uber since my car's still getting fixed

professor carson what's going on dina i

called you to come over

because i was worried that miss higard

might try to harm me

fortunately i got the upper hand as i've

been telling you she is not

a stable woman she considers both of us

a threat to her relationship with

professor

miller wait what dana i don't know what

she's told you about me but please call

the police

go i did warn you dina that she would

ultimately pretend

to be innocent but we both know better

i'm taking her to the police right now

that's why i have the gun take her keys

and bring her car around back

we'll be right there tina she's lying

she's lying please don't

help her kidnap me dina knows me i've

been working alongside her for months

she knows i would never

lie to her

tina sorry aurora

bro it's me i expected you and bri here

a while ago maybe we got our wires

crossed

call me

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hey where's bree she's not answering her

phone

neither was ro she was supposed to pick

up bree and bring her back here

oh that is not good especially since we

no longer believe that valerie's the one

who committed the robberies and attacked

sally and bree

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did you hear what we just said

crime signature is a compulsion

do you remember the question mark on the

photo in aida's office

row wondered why it was the only clue

with a question mark brie is a rule

follower

it's her compulsion all sources must be

cited

all the photographs had sources on them

and this one didn't and she couldn't

resist the question mark

in bright red so you're suggesting that

brie wrote these clues i think so

yes and i think she means to kill roe

hang on isn't thou shalt not kill the

biggest rule of all

you're both homicide detectives you know

that murderers develop their own

versions of rules

their own morality that allows them to

justify doing whatever they want

so you believe free means to kill ro

because she wants you yeah you're right

it's crazy

even if she had designs on me she's my

boss it goes against school policy to

date me

those rules she always follows

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resigned a month ago what she's leaving

at the end of the semester

she asked me not to tell you

hey i'm looking for ro she was supposed

to come by my dorm a little after

three but

what's wrong

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tina open the trunk

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get in aurora

you're trying to calculate whether i'd

actually shoot you here

well you might be willing to risk your

own life but i don't think you'll risk

hers

now get in the trunk professor carson

oh dina you're a muservy scholar you

should have an inkling by now that i've

been using you this whole time

dina it's okay it's okay i'm getting in

the trunk okay

i'm getting in okay your turn drop the

keys the bag

and your phone

yeah i need that done asap all right

we got an apb out for bree and for rose

car and we sent a unit to bree's house i

promise we're gonna do everything we can

to find her and bring her back safe

well what are we supposed to do there's

nothing you can do right now we can help

you just need to trust us

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how did i not see this

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so

we can't just do nothing agreed but what

can we do

your cousin just might be the smartest

person i know what did she text you no

she did one better

she activated the tracking mechanism on

her phone and she sent me the

authorization to use it

so where is he now uh the last location

it gave was kesterson road

well that's way out of town all right

let's go your car's here right

yeah okay i'll drag you call in

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why did you bring us here this is

professor hender's place i'm

house-sitting for him the semester

because she plans on killing both of us

and making it look like

murder suicide with you taking the blame

for valerie's attempted murder too

it's a shame to have to involve

professor henner and his lovely farm

but sometimes collateral damage is

unavoidable

in the hairs on my mother's computer the

dna is going to show that they're dinas

won't they and there must be messages

from dina to nick that you planted also

among other things

but now we have reached our dramatic

conclusion a little earlier than i

planned but

i know an opportunity when i see one i

still don't know what i ever did to you

i quit my job

a job that i love to pursue a

relationship with nick and then you came

along you cut in line when i was there

first

he and i are perfectly suited

didn't you think that you and andrew

morgan were perfectly suited well we

could have been

he wasn't so obsessed with his memories

of jessica

but i learned my lesson don't give nick

time to think

he's in love with you well what about

valerie

what did she do to you what did dina do

valerie got in the way and dina here is

an easy foil

but why let any woman in nick's orbit

have a turn and how satisfying will it

be to get away with it all

that's the key isn't it getting away

with it all your plan coming off without

a hitch except

not everything's going according to plan

is it what are you talking about

i've bested you at every turn in this

little cat and mouse game

actually you're a little disappointing

not nearly as formidable an opponent as

i thought

i think i hear the police coming don't

worry

run

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uh

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so

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where's aurora philip get dean inside

lock the doors and wait for the police

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so

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so

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nick how did you this has to stop

bree too many people have been hurt

free come on

this isn't you please just

let me help you help me

is that what you're gonna do i can see

right through you

you're here to rescue her

i read modern detective novels where

women know how to rescue themselves

you okay thank you

and yeah i'm okay because of you

are you okay yeah

no no this past hour

thinking i might never see you again

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agreed the police back then you know i'm

not so sure about their tactics i don't

know if they put the right person in

prison

oh i definitely think aaron's was the

lipstick killer

either way being here is way more

interesting than going to a frat party

well we're happy to have you in the club

oh look here are our two new members

i should have apologized to you at the

hospital i figured your

so-called mind for murder was overrated

but

you know your stuff i know you really

were trying to help all along

just next time work with us that's what

this club is all about

you got it i just want to say it's quite

gratifying to help catch a killer

maybe more gratifying than finding a

certain lost book

no worries no fines for you

dieta what are you doing here i came to

tell you all that uh valerie has

regained consciousness and she's gonna

be okay

oh i am so happy to hear that and i'm so

happy you're gonna be okay

but if you're not gonna let me track you

at least let someone keep an eye on you

i've got that covered mother hi aida

well the maltese falcons playing over at

the movie theater for retro nights so

i'll see you later okay and this is

definitely a date

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now the fun begins next sunday who did

it

not telling me i'm guessing it's the

butler when fun and games turns to real

murders is my aunt okay

and money is the motive this isn't good

we need fingerprints from all of you

everyone's a suspect

sally let the hunt begin candace cameron

beret stars

changed her will to protect yourself

aurora garden mysteries

an inheritance to die for premieres next

sunday night at nine

on hallmark movies and mysteries